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90_HB0635eng
20 ILCS 505/22.1 from Ch. 23, par. 5022.1
20 ILCS 505/22.4 from Ch. 23, par. 5022.4
20 ILCS 505/34.10 from Ch. 23, par. 5034.10
10 ILCS 5/4.24 new
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides
that the Department of Human Services shall develop a plan to
implement and finance certain day care services by March 15,
1998. Provides that the Department of Human Services may
recommend to the General Assembly changes in existing law
necessary to implement those day care services. Amends the
Illinois Health Facilities Authority Act. Provides that the
Illinois Health Facilities Authority shall assist the
Department of Human Services in establishing a low interest
loan program to help child care centers and family day care
homes serving children of low income families. Effective
July 1, 1997.
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1 AN ACT concerning child care services, amending named
2 Acts.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is
6 amended by changing Section 5.15 as follows:
7 (20 ILCS 505/5.15)
8 (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a
9 delayed effective date)
10 Sec. 5.15. Daycare; Department of Human Services.
11 (a) For the purpose of ensuring effective statewide
12 planning, development, and utilization of resources for the
13 day care of children, operated under various auspices, the
14 Department of Human Services is designated to coordinate all
15 day care activities for children of the State and shall
16 develop or continue, and shall update every year, a State
17 comprehensive day-care plan for submission to the Governor
18 that identifies high-priority areas and groups, relating them
19 to available resources and identifying the most effective
20 approaches to the use of existing day care services. The
21 State comprehensive day-care plan shall be made available to
22 the General Assembly following the Governor's approval of
23 the plan.
24 The plan shall include methods and procedures for the
25 development of additional day care resources for children to
26 meet the goal of reducing short-run and long-run dependency
27 and to provide necessary enrichment and stimulation to the
28 education of young children. Recommendations shall be made
29 for State policy on optimum use of private and public, local,
30 State and federal resources, including an estimate of the
31 resources needed for the licensing and regulation of day care
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1 facilities.
2 A written report shall be submitted to the Governor and
3 the General Assembly annually on April 15. The report shall
4 include an evaluation of developments over the preceding
5 fiscal year, including cost-benefit analyses of various
6 arrangements. Beginning with the report in 1990 submitted by
7 the Department's predecessor agency and every 2 years
8 thereafter, the report shall also include the following:
9 (1) An assessment of the child care services, needs
10 and available resources throughout the State and an
11 assessment of the adequacy of existing child care
12 services, including, but not limited to, services
13 assisted under this Act and under any other program
14 administered by other State agencies.
15 (2) A survey of day care facilities to determine
16 the number of qualified caregivers, as defined by rule,
17 attracted to vacant positions and any problems
18 encountered by facilities in attracting and retaining
19 capable caregivers.
20 (3) The average wages and salaries and fringe
21 benefit packages paid to caregivers throughout the State,
22 computed on a regional basis.
23 (4) The qualifications of new caregivers hired at
24 licensed day care facilities during the previous 2-year
25 period.
26 (5) Recommendations for increasing caregiver wages
27 and salaries to ensure quality care for children.
28 (6) Evaluation of the fee structure and income
29 eligibility for child care subsidized by the State.
30 The requirement for reporting to the General Assembly
31 shall be satisfied by filing copies of the report with the
32 Speaker, the Minority Leader, and the Clerk of the House of
33 Representatives, the President, the Minority Leader, and the
34 Secretary of the Senate, and the Legislative Research Unit,
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1 as required by Section 3.1 of the General Assembly
2 Organization Act, and filing such additional copies with the
3 State Government Report Distribution Center for the General
4 Assembly as is required under paragraph (t) of Section 7 of
5 the State Library Act.
6 (b) The Department of Human Services shall establish
7 policies and procedures for developing and implementing
8 interagency agreements with other agencies of the State
9 providing child care services or reimbursement for such
10 services.
11 (c) In cooperation with other State agencies, the
12 Department of Human Services shall develop and implement, or
13 shall continue, a resource and referral system for the State
14 of Illinois either within the Department or by contract with
15 local or regional agencies. Funding for implementation of
16 this system may be provided through Department appropriations
17 or other inter-agency funding arrangements. The resource and
18 referral system shall provide at least the following
19 services:
20 (1) Assembling and maintaining a data base on the
21 supply of child care services.
22 (2) Providing information and referrals for
23 parents.
24 (3) Coordinating the development of new child care
25 resources.
26 (4) Providing technical assistance and training to
27 child care service providers.
28 (5) Recording and analyzing the demand for child
29 care services.
30 (d) The Department of Human Services shall conduct day
31 care planning activities with the following priorities:
32 (1) Development of voluntary day care resources
33 wherever possible, with the provision for grants-in-aid
34 only where demonstrated to be useful and necessary as
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1 incentives or supports.
2 (2) Emphasis on service to children of recipients
3 of public assistance when such service will allow
4 training or employment of the parent toward achieving the
5 goal of independence.
6 (3) Maximum employment of recipients of public
7 assistance in day care centers and day care homes,
8 operated in conjunction with short-term work training
9 programs.
10 (4) Care of children from families in stress and
11 crises whose members potentially may become, or are in
12 danger of becoming, non-productive and dependent.
13 (5) Expansion of family day care facilities
14 wherever possible.
15 (6) Location of centers in economically depressed
16 neighborhoods, preferably in multi-service centers with
17 cooperation of other agencies.
18 (7) Use of existing facilities free of charge or
19 for reasonable rental whenever possible in lieu of
20 construction.
21 (8) Development of strategies for assuring a more
22 complete range of day care options, including provision
23 of day care services in homes, in schools, or in centers,
24 which will enable a parent or parents to complete a
25 course of education or obtain or maintain employment.
26 Emphasis shall be given to support services that will
27 help to ensure such parents' graduation from high school and
28 to services for participants in the Project Chance program of
29 job training conducted by the Department.
30 (e) The Department of Human Services shall actively
31 stimulate the development of public and private resources at
32 the local level. It shall also seek the fullest utilization
33 of federal funds directly or indirectly available to the
34 Department.
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1 Where appropriate, existing non-governmental agencies or
2 associations shall be involved in planning by the Department.
3 (f) To better accommodate the child care needs of low
4 income working families, especially those who receive
5 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or who are
6 transitioning from TANF to work, or who are at risk of
7 depending on TANF in the absence of child care, the
8 Department shall complete a study using outcome-based
9 assessment measurements to analyze the various types of child
10 care needs, including but not limited to: child care homes;
11 child care facilities; before and after school care; and
12 evening and weekend care. Based upon the findings of the
13 study, the Department shall develop a plan by April 15, 1998,
14 that identifies the various types of child care needs within
15 various geographic locations. The plan shall include, but
16 not be limited to, the special needs of parents and guardians
17 in need of non-traditional child care services such as early
18 mornings, evenings, and weekends; the needs of very low
19 income families and children and how they might be better
20 served; and strategies to assist child care providers to meet
21 the needs and schedules of low income families.
22 (Source: P.A. 89-507, eff. 7-1-97.)
23 Section 10. The Illinois Health Facilities Authority Act
24 is amended by adding Section 4.24 as follows:
25 (20 ILCS 3705/4.24 new)
26 Sec. 4.24. To assist the Department of Human Services in
27 establishing a low interest loan program to help child care
28 centers and family day care homes serving children of low
29 income families under Section 22.4 of the Children and Family
30 Services Act.
31 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
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1 July 1, 1997.